Improvement in frying-pans



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F. P'. WARREN. Frying' Pan.

No'. 123,753,v Patented Feb.13,1a72.

#M u 4 V l i I PATENT OFFICE,

FREDERIC PELHAM WARREN, OF EAST COURT COSHAM, `CREAT BRITAIN.

IMPROVEMENT IN RvlNe-PANS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 123,753, dated February 13, 1872.

- other food to be cooked may be placed with the liquid material between, and the double pan turned over upon the iire, so as to cook its contents at either side, as required, without the liquid being spilled.

In the drawing, Figures 1, 3, and 5 are sections, and Figs. 2, 4, and 6, plan views, show- 1ing various forms in which my improved pau may be mad e. The pan a is formed of thin metal, with channels b communicatingwith each other by means of the circular channel b', thus presenting a much smaller amount of surface to the fish or other food to be cooked than is presented by the flat surface of an ordinary frying-pan, and greatly lessening its chance of adhesion to the pan, while at the same time the boiling of the heated grease contained in the channels b effects the cooking of the food in the most lthorough and equable manner, without any danger of burning, although the extent of surface presented to the action of the re is considerably greater in this case than where the ordinary at surface only is employed. f 'The pan is a double one, the outer one, a, being shown in section, and the other, c', f1tting into the pan afbeing represented in elevation. The pans are formed with deep sides or ilanges and with channels b b', as described with reference to the previous figures. The

. Section.

two pans, a and (d, each provided with a handle, d, are hinged together at e, the pan a tting into the pan a, as shown.

In use, the two pans are opened or divided` by means of their hinge, and the food to be cooked is introduced between them. They are then closed, andthe food is cooked by placing the combined pan upon the fire land turning it over, so as to cook at either one or the other or' the two sides, as required.

Figs. 3 and 5 represent a modified arrangement of the double pan, in which the two pans, instead of being hinged together, are e'ach formed with a separate handle, and are taken apart for the purpose of introducing the food between them, as required. Transverse as Well as lon gitudin al channels b, communicating with the channel b', are employed.

Fig. 5 represents a Vertical section of a dou- .ble pan having its channels b made angular in The two pans are hinged together at e.

Fig. 6 represents a double pan, in which the hinge e, connecting the two pans together, is placed at right angles to the direction of the handles.

I am aware that corrugated waffle and broiler plates hinged together have been used; and, therefore, Ido not claim, broadly, a double hinged cooking utensil; but

I claim- K l. A cookingutensil, consisting of two flan ged vessels, provided with handles and adapted to each other, as set forth.

2. The combination of two vessels, as set forth, when corrugated as described.

FREDERIC PELHAM WARREN.

Witnesses:

H. E. WILEs, JNO. GEO. PEARsoN. 

